Impending Version of Microsoft OCS Demo'ed at Tech-Ed

Code-named 'Communications Server 14,' the product is promised for 'later this year.'

"A demo of the new unified communications solution was presented by Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Communications Group. It was shown about midway (45:00 minute) during a Day-1 keynote address by Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business," writes Kurt Mackie on Microsoft Certified Professional Online.

"Muglia said during the keynote that Communications Server 14 'will ship later this year.' Communications Server 14 (which is code named) is the successor to Microsoft's Office Communications Server product. Quite possibly it could take on the Microsoft '2010' product nomenclature, since Communications Server 14 works with other products in the Microsoft stack, such as Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Exchange 2010, as well as some earlier versions of those products." Mackie reports.